https://doi.org/10.33805/2638-8073.104 Volume 1 Issue 1 | PDF 104 | Pages 7 Volume 1 . Issue 1 | PDF 101 | Page 1 of x Edelweiss Psychiatry Open Access Research Article ISSN: 2638-8073 Impact of Workplace Deviance Behaviors on Turnover Intention of Employees in Pakistan Muhammad Ramzan Mehar1*, Muhammad Asif2, Ali Hassan1* Affiliation 1Superior College and University, Lahore, Pakistan 2University of Central Punjab Lahore, Pakistan *Corresponding author: Muhammad Ramzan Mehar, Lecturer at Superior College and University, Lahore, Pakistan, Email: [email protected] Citation: Ramzan MM, Asif M, Hassan A. Impact of Workplace Deviance Behaviors on Turnover Intention of Employees in Pakistan (2018) Edelweiss Psyi Open Access 1: 14-20 Received: Jan 06, 2018 Accepted: Feb 15, 2018 Published: Feb 18, 2018 Copyright: © 2018 Ramzan MM, et al., This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Abstract Workplace deviance behaviors are a negative fact that damages people who working within them and organizations without sound. This particular study is on finding out the Impact of Workplace Deviance Behaviors on Turnover Intentions of Employees in Pakistan. For this purpose researcher conduct a one short study that examine a sample of 110 employees from private and governmental organizations from Lahore, Pakistan. Our research help to people who want to know about Workplace Deviance and its consequences, and corrective measures of this behavior. For analysis purpose researcher used descriptive, frequency and correlation analysis. Result shows that most of people in Pakistan thing to leave an organization/ current job with offering new one. Turnover Intentions has positive and significant relationship with Political Deviance, Personal Deviance, and Production Deviance but Turnover Intentions has insignificant relationship with Property Deviance. Keyword: Workplace Deviance; Turnover Intentions; Pakistan Introduction Because of workplace deviance organizations face many problems but one of the main problems that under discussion in this paper is turnover intention, this study conduct to find relationship or correlation between Background workplace deviance and turnover intentions. This study is about to find the impact of workplace deviance behaviors on turnover intentions of employees in Pakistan. The study is helpful Research Problem for various private and government organizations to knowing about The problem which is focused by researcher in this particular study to workplace deviance and its consequences. Workplace deviance has know about the impact and relationship between workplace deviance become very interesting topic for research since last 20 years. behavior and turnover intention of employees in Pakistan. There is Workplace deviance is due to mistreatment in workplace that effect however several form of workplace deviance behaviors such as, employees and organizational effectiveness and it is very harmful in a political, personal, production and property deviance behaviors that negative form for any organization. will lead to turnover intentions among employees at workplace which affect the accomplishment of set goals of the organizations. So without Because it leads towards employees that is followed increase in eliminating these types of negative behaviors at workplace they said turnover intention, intention to leave, workplace theft absenteeism, vices are likely to continue and slowdown the achievement of the property destructions, waste time & sources, and many other similar organizations’ set goals. Need arises to examine the deviance behaviors negative reactions. And ultimately deviance behaviors in workplace at workplace in Pakistan hence this proposed research. cause to destroy organizational commitment and financial & non- financial repute of the organizations. Research objective Introduction • To explain the concept of workplace deviance • To elaborate the concept of turnover intentions Our research topic is “impact of workplace deviance on turnover • To measure the Impact of personal deviance behavior on turnover intention of employees in Pakistan” study include workplace deviance intention of employee, as an independent variable and turnover intention as dependent • To determine the Impact of property deviance behavior on turnover variable. There are 4 dimensions and its elements of deviance intention of employee, behaviors include this research study, these dimensions are political • To assess the Impact of production deviance behavior on turnover deviance, personal deviance, production deviance, and property intention of employee, deviance. • To describe the Impact of political deviance behavior on turnover intention of employee, • To calculate the impact of workplace deviance on turnover intentions, Citation: Ramzan MM, Asif M, Hassan A. Impact of Workplace Deviance Behaviors on Turnover Intention of Employees in Pakistan (2018) Edelweiss Psyi Open Access 1: 14-20 14 Ramzan MM, et al. Edelweiss Psychiatry Open Access, 2018 PDF: 105, 1:1 • To find the relationship among workplace deviance & its dimensions and turnover intentions. Significance of the study The present study focuses on workplace deviance behaviors and its impact and cause to increase turnover intentions in employees. After knowing about turnover intentions, the policy makers in an organization take it into consideration while making policies and taking important decisions to deviance behaviors in workplace. Limitation of the study This study includes workplace deviance, its dimensions, & its elements and turnover intention as overall. But it is important to mention that researcher does not includes two elements of political deviance named as backstabbing & competing non-beneficially, one element of Figure1: Dimensions of workplace deviance and its elements. personal deviance called endangering coworker, and two elements of production deviance named as intentionally working slow & wasting time and sources in this particular study. Political Deviance Political deviance is considers as minor form of deviance behavior in which one employee or group of employees show favoritism for other Literature Review certain stakeholders like; co-workers, customers, and suppliers of the organization. Political deviance may include gossip about co-workers, Workplace Deviance spreading rumors about organization and employees, blaming co- Workplace deviance behavior is voluntary behavior of individual or workers and supervisions, backstabbing and competing non- group of individual that violates significant organizational norms and beneficially. Undercharging preferred customers and sharing threatened the wellbeing of the organization or its members by doing companies secretes also include in political deviance behavior that may so. There are many others names used for workplace deviance like; result to high cost for the organizations (Eddleston & Kidder, 2006). counterproductive behavior, antisocial behavior, and workplace incivility (Robinson & Bennett, 2011). Another researcher explain Personal Deviance workplace deviance in his book as “workplace deviance behavior Personal is a major and negative form of deviance behavior in (WDB) refers to an intentional acts executed by employees of the workplace in which includes hostile or aggression behavior of organization that violate norms of the organization and have capacity individual who have negative thinking against other employees. to maltreat the organization or members of the organization (Cooper & Political Deviance Personal Deviance Production Deviance Property Klimosk, 2007). The tern of deviance are characterized in the context Deviance Personal deviance is very harmful for well repute of the of employees who intentionally steal, come late on job, procrastinate, organization. It may also include sexual harassment, verbal abuse goof off, fail to provide proper services to their customers and clients, against some one other employee, physical action to interrupt or forget to provide detailed report to supervisors and otherwise destruct distrust work of others, steaming co-worker, and endangering for co- or downfall the goals for the organization (Elias, 2013). And workers (Geffner & Li, 2012). organizational norms include both formal and informal organizational rules & regulations, policies & procedure, and method of conducting routine business. Production Deviance Production deviance also considered as minor or positive form of There are many scientists identified that workplace deviance in workplace deviance behavior in which employees consistently violate reaction cause to frustrating organizational stressors like; social, the rules and set standard for quality and quantity for producing a financial, and working condition in workplace (Spector & Fox, 2004). goods and services, It may also be quite costly for the organization, Workplace deviance is a well interesting and observed topic in these loss of control over predefine set standard of production may cause to days in both academic and practical research. Researchers identified increase cost of production for the company, production deviance may that workplace deviance is a very serious problem in both also include leaving early, absenteeism, lateness, taking more break, manufacturing and services firms because its consequences are very intentionally working slow,